Ex-world champion and ZDF expert Severin Freund also obtains his system criticism in the epicenter of the World Cup scandal.
In an interview with the broadcaster NRK on the edge of the World Cup in Vikersund, the 36 -year -old has confirmed his demands for a radical system change in the fight against fraud – and specified his ideas.
Severin friend with ZDF colleague Lena Kesting
Freund: “There is a problem with the system”
“There is a problem with the system. As a former ski jumper and today’s fan, it was shocking how far the Norwegians went. This is something that I can’t understand and that I didn’t expect, ”said Freund.
The overall World Cup winner from 2015 stated that something “is wrong with the system” if such a fraud as at the World Cup in Trondheim is tried: “You obviously did not think that there are great consequences.” This is a sign that something has to change and that the punishment by the World Association FIS needs greater deterrent effects: “It requires clearer regulations regarding sanctions and what disqualifications mean for the future.”
The current regulations “created a culture in which one thought: we have the World Cup on home soil and we want to take the risk.” So the punishments are obviously not hard enough: “At the end of the day you have to create an environment in which the jumpers and the teams say: okay, maybe we have an idea, but we don’t want to take the risk because too much is at stake.”
Norwegian stars suspended
A video leak, in which the Norwegian team was illegally manipulated at the World Cup at the World Cup the suits of the two top stars Marius Lindvik and Johann Andre Forfang, had started the scandal at the World Cup in Trondheim.
After Lindvik and Forfang had already been suspended on their suits on Wednesday due to proven fraudulent manipulation, after further investigations, the FIS also pulled out the former ski flight world recordler Robert Johansson, the World Cup seventh Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal and Robin Pedersen.
The FIS issued new rules to limit the damage: by the end of March, every jumper may only have a suit, which will be kept up to 30 minutes before the first and 30 minutes after the last jump from the World Association.